Oramics to electronica

WHEN YOU FIRST see the Oramics machine, you can't work out what it's for, let alone how it works. It's an old wooden cupboard hung about with so many tubes, wires and strips of 35mm film, it could be anything from a medical scanner to a detector listening hopefully for a signal from ET. With no keyboard, no strings and no mouthpiece, you wouldn't guess initially that this machine represented a key moment in the history of electronic music.